Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
pp for it? >... fnlib builds the binary packages libfnlib-dev and libfnlib0. These packages are still needed by enlightenment. > Ciao > Christian cu, Adrian -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
... > > Too late. }:) >... Grrr... He filed them: - without subject - with severity "serious" These are at most "normal" bugs in packages with a Standards-Version < 3.0.0 cu, Adrian -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a &q

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
be necessary, >but just in case). > 5. Remove /usr/doc > 6. Link /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc 1,3,5,6 need doing (for instance dh_installdocs will install symlinks in /usr/doc if /usr/doc exists if /usr/doc/ doesn't exist). However do we really need the rest? It'd be ni

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
to find packages whose maintainer is AWOL - all other packages should have been updated until then. cu, Adrian -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
lled in the archive, but you can upload new and adopted packages through a sponsor, work on the boot floppies and many other things without a Debian account. > marek cu, Adrian -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
ven if I know what I'm doing - I tell my best friend: "Unstable currently runs fine and if you want you can give it a try." That would be the first time where Debian would try to regulate what I do in the time when I'm not working for Debian and at that point I would immed

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
since I find the issues useful - I found useful articles in all the ones I read. Unfortuantely since I left uni I havn't been sufficiently bored to remember to download and read them (and hence to package them). d) I was hoping the "data" section of Debian would get into policy s

Re: IBM MWAVE multifunction card

2001-01-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
ink it > has Sound Blaster compatibility as far as the port > drivers are concerned. I doubt it. IBM has (finally) release MWave drivers for certain thinkpads, but I doubt these will work on your PC: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/ Adrian Email: [EMAIL

Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
. As a solution I suggest the following: When a package was only uploaded to stable the bugs aren't closed but tagged "woody" instead. When the package goes into testing the bugs get closed. cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern wei

Re: Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:11:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think we have a new problem with the closing of bugs since there is > > testing: Currently, bugs get closed when a package goes into unstable. &g

Re: switching to libxml2

2001-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
cedure in this case? i don't want to displease > anyone, but this dependency on the old library is annoying quite some > of us. Are there any real problems or what does "annoyning" mean? > ciao, > federico cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
nvolve your packages" mail sent some time before a bug squashing party fulfills the "E-mail the maintianer." . > -- John cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

Re: Symlinking /usr/share/doc/ is not allowed

2003-06-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
nclusion of the full GPL text in all GPL'ed packages)... > - mdz cu Adrian [1] http://bugs.debian.org/78341 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise,&

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:52:13AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:39:20AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > > From a user's point of view it doesn't matter whether the lack

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
tuations is to: - a distribution that supports all the hardware they have - install the computers once - get regular security updates These people are definitely not interested in tracking which maintainers are MIA or things like that. > Britton Kerin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
0 that works fine with the drivers in XFree86 >= 4.2. There are some small issues with the DVI-output, but it's basically working and the issues are the same with both the drivers in XFree86 and the drivers by Matrox (the drivers by Matrox are based on the drivers in XFree86). cu Adr

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
ere are versions of this card with a DVI output), but it's unlikely that you get such a card at your usual hardware vendor. If you _really want_ Debian there are often ways, but often it's easier to switch the distribution. > - mdz cu Adrian -- "Is there not prom

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
h collides with the packages supported by Debian 3.0. Instead in continuing this discussion, let's agree on some points: - you can find hardware that works with Debian 3.0 - much new hardware doesn't work with Debian 3.0 - it would be good if Debian would release more frequent (e.g. once a

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:51:51PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:36:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Instead in continuing this discussion, let's agree on some points: > > - you can find hardware that works with Debian 3.0 > > - much n

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
hese updates introduces a new bug (IMHO a conservative estimation) these packages will bring 100 new bugs into _a released stable_. > ciao, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had be

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:41:50AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: >... > I accept your observation on my proposal, but i would more appreciate other > ideas and/or solutions. If there was a stable release of Debian once a year Debian 3.1 was already released. >

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
nd restructure the thing to make it simple enough. > cu, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a newpackage.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you start asking you will likely find more than thousand packages > > where someone will have a good reason for an update of the package > > in Debian

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
; > > If it's too complex, it's time to rethink and restructure the thing to > > make it simple enough. > > That's what I mean. Try to remove complexity by restructuring > it. However, by restructuring things, you will also introduce other > complexiti

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:17:14AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If there was a stable release of Debian once a year Debian 3.1 was > > already released. > > hehe, i knew you would ha

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
d be left for your "base package"? > my 2 cents > -- > mattia cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:26:24AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:51:51PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I don't think you'll find much argument with those p

Re: why no python, tcl, tk metapackage?

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
r because the > version number is hardwired into the only available package's name. Most of these packages include binaries linked with libtcl8.3.so.1 . It would be completely wrong if the dependency wasn't on tcl8.3, theses programs wouldn't even start without tcl8.3 installed. cu

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:17:35AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:35:04PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If you _really_ need or want a more recent version of a package there's > > always the possibility to use a backport. >

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
> > speed the release process. For example, a prominent release goal for > > > sarge will be debian-installer, since we cannot release without it. > > > Will telling the d-i developers "you must be finished by > > date>" bring it to completion faster? >

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
ckages/ > > The package (1) does not deal with the logcheck mess that I am trying to > solve. > > data > > (1) spamassassin This problem [1] was reported a week ago isn't even fixed in unstable. Get it fixed in unstable and the fix will go into the backport. cu Adria

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:48:58PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:24:19PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > So you agree on having a bounce of personal archives on p.d.o rather than > > > a > > > way of getting them in stable t

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
l to fix, but doesn't indicate noone would be interested in this architecture. > ciao, | > Marco | [987 sp7FmbP1wiu6Q] cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
Debian list for this architecture whether someone can give you an account on a machine of this architecture > Jamin W. Collins cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
t's documented somewhere. All I know is that it worked in the past and it's worth trying it. > Jamin W. Collins cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
is going on here? It appears that apart from 'animals', > the only things depending on libdb2++ (the C++ interface to libdb2) are > *future* versions of the C++ interface to libdb. Why are they depending > on it? This seems odd to me. These "dependencies" are versio

Re: NMU version number and native packages

2003-07-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
not lower than the lowest possible next maintainer upload version number is simply broken. The NMU versioning scheme in the Developer's Reference might sound strange, but it's needed for exactly this reason. > regards, > junichi cu Adrian -- "Is there no

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:57:46PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:42:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>... > >> I contacted the SRM about the possibility of inclusion of gimp-print > &

Multiple so-versions of a lib in unstable are bad

2003-08-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
programs linked with two or more so-versions of a library at the same time. There are problems with so-name changes (I remember one library having 5 (five) different so-names within one month), but they should be solvable via communication between maintainers. cu Adrian BTW: Please Cc me

Re: Multiple so-versions of a lib in unstable are bad

2003-08-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:02:58PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adrian Bunk > > > [...] > > | If libd1 is uploaded and only one of proga and libv0 is recompiled with > | libd1 this results in proga linked with both so-versions of the library. > | I remember probl

Bug#329117: ITP: kwin-decor-suse2 -- This the the KDE Window decoration extracted from SUSE 9.3. In addition it features new button styles and a changeable logo in the titlebar.

2005-09-19 Thread Adrian Neumaier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Neumaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kwin-decor-suse2 Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Gerd Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gerdfleischer.de/kwin-decor-suse2/ * License

autoconf AC_FUNC_MKTIME breaks with gcc 4.3

2008-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
n), but someone might want to check how many packages in Debian use AC_FUNC_MKTIME and whether some of them might have real problems. cu Adrian BTW: Please Cc me on replies. -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. T

Re: libswt and eclipse

2009-07-01 Thread Adrian Perez
ws as I can get ;). http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swt-gtk -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libswt and eclipse

2009-07-07 Thread Adrian Perez
I'm CC-ing to debian-java. The package swt-gtk (3.4.2-1) was uploaded. -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

dh_nativejava warning

2009-07-08 Thread Adrian Perez
The latest lintian complains about dh_nativejava prepending paths to maintainer scripts. I wish to know what's the status of fixing this since it's affecting a package of mine. The bug report #511491 submitted a patch, I think. -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Descrip

Bug#538914: ITP: kcemu -- A software emulator for microcomputers made in the former state of East Germany

2009-07-27 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: kcemu Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Torsten Paul * URL : http://kcemu.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A software emulator for

Emacs 23.1 released

2009-07-30 Thread Adrian Perez
rt. > > Many thanks to the rest of the Emacs development team for their hard > work; and to the numerous users who contributed suggestions and bug > reports. Happy hacking. > > > ___ > GNU Announcement mailing list > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Emacs 23.1 released

2009-07-30 Thread Adrian Perez
-30 at 15:31 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Adrian Perez (30/07/2009): > > I'd like to see this in unstable ASAP. > > Get to work? > > Mraw, > KiBi. -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Emacs 23.1 released

2009-07-30 Thread Adrian Perez
Sorry about the tone, you misunderstood me. What I'm actually saying is that I'm willing to do anything to get this quickly in unstable. I'll file the wishbug. Thanks for everything. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 00:39 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Adrian Perez writes: > > &

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Adrian Perez
Hello. This may not be relevant in here, but I felt the need to ask. There's any plan of supporting another format - without breaking compatibility, I mean supporting - besides the RFC one? I think YAML would be a good one. IMHO there is stuff that could be somehow automated, then reviewed, but no

Re: Why YAML is not a good choice for Debian control files.

2009-08-03 Thread Adrian Perez
Your explanation seems fine. In the meantime, I'll try to work on something more suitable, maybe getting build-depends as array or hash members, I dunno. anyways, thanks for you to answer. On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 11:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:01:36AM -0400

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-03 Thread Adrian Perez
1 from > unstable/testing. > > Thanks > -- > Rob Browning > rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu > GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 > > -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-09-07 Thread Adrian Perez
a DEP3-compliant > header but would that resolve your concerns? > > Is that really better over (auto-)duplicating those fields when needed? > > Anyway, I'd rather wait some time until people have tried using this > format before deciding if we must make some special case

Re: Re: Postfix as default MTA?

2007-04-14 Thread Adrian Hall
probably better if you all go outside and get some fresh air and daylight instead of playing with your neck beard and pony tail and worrying needlessly about geeky stuff -- Checked for viruses by Gigantic Computing using AVG Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/

packages built without optimization

2007-08-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
be good if maintainers would sometimes check whether their packages are actually built with compiler optimization enabled. This does not apply to the cases where maintainers intentionally build packages without compiler optimization (to work around compiler or application bugs). TIA Adrian

Re: packages built without optimization

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like > > Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without > > any compiler optimization [3]. >

Bug#449098: ITP: natpmp -- NAT Port Mapping daemon

2007-11-02 Thread Adrian Friedli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: natpmp Version: 0.2.0 Upstream Author: Adrian Friedli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/natpmp/ License: GNU GPL 2 Description: NAT Port M

Re: Bug#449098: ITP: natpmp -- NAT Port Mapping daemon

2007-11-03 Thread Adrian Friedli
Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > Out of curiosity: What does natpmp have in common with upnp, and where > are the differences? NAT-PMP is intended for two things, requesting a routers public IP address and adding/removing port forwardings, UPnP can do much more. NAT-PMP is mu

Bug#570150: ITP: z80ex -- Emulation library for z80 CPUs.

2010-02-16 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz Hi, this is a emulation library for z80 CPUs. It is required for the kcemu KC85/4 emulator developed by Thorsten Paul which I also packaged (#538914). But it may also be used for other emulators. Adrian * Package name: z80ex

Bug#571647: ITP: qhimdtransfer -- Transfer software for HiMD Walkman

2010-02-26 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz Hi, I would like to package qhimdtransfer for Debian which is the graphical frontend to a library called libhimd which we also develop. libhimd is also intended for packaging in another ITP (#533112) in Debian. Up to now, we are linking

Bug#572289: ITP: gkrellm-cpufreq -- CPU frequency plugin for GKrellM

2010-03-02 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: gkrellm-cpufreq Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Christoph Winkelmann * URL : http://mathicse.epfl.ch/~winkelma/gkrellm2-cpufreq/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:00:14PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > ../common/JackAPI.cpp:303: error: cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list' > for argument '4' to 'jack_client_t* jack_client_open_aux(const char*, > jack_options_t, jack_status_t*, va_list)' The code in question: jack_client_open_aux

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:50:39PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > The code in question: > > > >jack_client_open_aux(client_name, (jack_options_t)options, NULL, NULL); > > Instead of trying to fake up an empty va_list, why not call the varargs > version, with only the argument terminator in

Bug#584496: ITP: orxonox -- the hottest 3D action shooter ever to exist

2010-06-03 Thread Adrian Friedli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: orxonox Version: Upstream Author: Orxonox Development Team URL: http://www.orxonox.net/ License: GPL 2, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Description: Orxonox is a spacecraft shooter that pla

Bug#593734: ITP: a2jmidid -- daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems

2010-08-20 Thread Adrian Knoth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Knoth * Package name: a2jmidid Version : 6 Upstream Author : Nedko Arnaudov * URL : http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in

Re: Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-16 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Hi! [CELT for spice] > Yeah I am aware of the celt _madness_ - I am one of the mumble > maintainers.. > > spice then has to be adjusted to support celt 0.9. I strongly support this demand. It was wrong to use CELT in the first plac

Bug#604728: general: Cannot play anything in totem or gnome-mplayer while a flash movie is running in iceweasel

2010-11-24 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0100, marcin wrote: [No other audio app starts when there's already one running] > I'm sorry but I cannot tell which package exactly is the source of the > problem so I put it in 'general' section. Well, looks like a classic: on some (most?) audio cards, ALSA o

Re: Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:42:38PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > In the scientific field a lot of software depend of qt3. And a lot of Same for kpicosim, but I'm pretty confident that I can run qt3to4 on it and simply link with qt4's qt3 support library. Last time I tried, the whole process

A cool tool called lintian

2003-10-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
ave used lintian these bugs would have never existed. cu Adrian BTW: I'm not subscribed to debian-devel [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-checkit.en.html [2] http://lintian.debian.org -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of t

Re: A cool tool called lintian

2003-10-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:39:44PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > There are more serious lintian errors like missing-depends-line (nine > packages - nine RC bugs). If the maintainer would have used lintian > these bugs would have never existed. >... A small correction: While pr

Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
taller for these architectures in 3.1r1 or 3.1r2. This way Debian 3.1 might be released more early, and even for the affected architectures it's better, since additionally to the status quo (installing and using Debian 3.0), they can upgrade to Debian 3.1 . Thanks for reading this mail. Yours Adri

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:42:26PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > During the last months, the number of RC bugs of packages in unstable > > was constant at 700 bugs including 500 RC bugs in packages that are

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:34:27AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:42:26PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > For testing to work good, it's required to have unstable in a good &g

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Please read it, and make your own opinions on where I'm right and where > > I'm wrong, even if you might not agree with my opinions on other i

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:51:55PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:35:57AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > The problem with your pragmatic approach is that every of your users has > > other packages he cares about. A package you care zero about might

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:53:36PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Today, it's only 17 days until the officially announced "aggressive goal" > > for the release of Debian 3.1 [1]. That's a

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
aptop is two or three years old? Debian 3.0 was mostly current at the time when it was released, but much support for current hardware is missing in Debian 3.0 . > > What are the unexpected delays in the dvelopment of debian-installer? > > I don't think that I implied that there

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:57:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:28:41PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:14:49AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > I'm not saying this would be immoral or something like that, but e.g. a >

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
hes build errors and dependency problems. After three years of testing, it seems that some of the promises like having testing always in a releasable state were never fulfilled, in fact testing was sometimes in a worse state than unstable. testing with its lack of security fixes, aprox. 500

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
ale-zh-cn mozilla-locale-zh-hk mozilla-locale-zh-tw > Cheers, > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:54:00PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:29:29PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > There are some good suggestions in your proposal, e.g. you suggest to > > check whether the build dependencies are fulfilled. The lack of checking

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
they were also used for a different purpose. > Regards, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
ibs Package: App2 Version: 1-1 Depends: some GNOME1-libs unstable: Package: App1 Version: 2-1 Depends: some GNOME2-libs Package: App2 Version: 2-1 Depends: some GNOME2-libs The way testing works, it's always possible for version 2-1 of App1 to enter testing while testing still

Re: mozilla 1.6b

2003-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
to Gtk 1.2, you have to give an explicit configure option to compile it with Gtk 2 . > Thomas E. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Adrian, > if 'boot-loader' was not a real package (not sure if it requires a new > catagory or if it fits under meta or virtual) and then when you did: > apt-get install boot-loader > it (dpkg or apt -- no

Lowering the severity doesn't fix libvorbis0

2002-08-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
pat)? Your lowering of the severity to get your broken package into testing (it's now in testing...) is _not_ a solution. cu Adrian -- You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because it

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 27)

2002-12-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
source-2.4.18 cu Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html [2] http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200211/0192.html -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.

Symlinking /usr/share/doc/ is not allowed

2003-05-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
nvince me that my interpretation of your policy is wrong I'll start filing bugs against packages that symlink /usr/share/doc/ to the directory of another package. cu Adrian BTW: I'm not subscribed to debian-devel. -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly o

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
rams that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. ... Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. <-- snip --> cu Adrian

Re: libc6 broken?

2001-04-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
aintainer: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: glibc Version: 2.2.2-4 ... <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 11)

2001-04-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
-2.4.3 (2.4.3-3 -> 2.4.3-4) + added a patch to umount in util-linux to prevent users from umounting partitions root has mounted (when the user option is set in /etc/fstab) + removed: usbmgr cu Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html -

Re: Conflict: libgb

2001-04-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Ben Burton wrote: >... > Of course there are no packages in Debian which use Gnome Basic either, > since this is its first packaging. You can compile gnumeric with support for Gnome Basic. > Ben. cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen w

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
t the "Essential: yes" of perl-base that makes sure that the package is always installed (as an example, mawk is 'priority required' but not essential and I've removed it from my system a long time ago). > David cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
t's probably going to come up more and more > as more developers become MIA over time. Martin usually marks packages of MIA maintainers as orphaned. I think it's better if a few persons take care of this instead of many more people sending ITHs. cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 12)

2001-05-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
-linux with the international kernel patch + removed: kernel-image-2.4.3-i386 + removed: kernel-source-2.4.3 cu Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

About native packages

2001-05-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
make a split in your upstream development. One argument for native packages is that you want to include the debian/ directory in your upstream package. You can do this even in non-native packages and when you change nothing the .diff.gz will be empty - but it's possible for you to change on

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
ckage that needs many kernel headers (and the package in unstable compiles only with 2.4 kernel headers). I do currently use the kernel haeaders libc6-dev ships. Would it be the right solution to copy the 2.4.4 kernel headers into the package and use them? cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge sch

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
oolize --force" to prevent a miscompilation of the libraries - it would be much more easy when the programs would use a locally installed libtool instead. cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.

Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
gnome-chess Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnumeric Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) manpages-fr Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pwgen Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sed <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- Nicht w

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > ... > >Oliver Elphick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) libpgsql > > This package is obsolete and should not be included in any release. Please ask the ftp admins to remove the package from unstable (

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